Dian Fay articles - 22 total
ectomigo: Safer Schema Migrations
The team I work with at my day job maintains many applications and processes interacting across a...
Exploring Databases Visually
In "things you can do with a terminal emulator that renders images": One way to look at a database's...
Extra-fuzzy History Searching with Mnem
I use a lot of Rust command-line tools: ripgrep, fd, dust, and more. So when I had my own idea for a...
Should sponsors be able to hide comments on their posts?
GitHub is sponsoring CodeLand, and have the expected friendly DevRel spokesperson, announcement threa...
Plex: A Life
A little while back I got my hands on a copy of Software Development and Reality Construction, the ou...
JOIN Semiotics and MassiveJS v6
MassiveJS version 6 is imminent. This next release closes the widest remaining gap between Massive-ge...
A Self-Sourcing Cassandra Cluster with SaltStack and EC2
Anybody doing something interesting to a production Cassandra cluster is generally advised, for a hos...
Automatic Node Deploys to Elastic Beanstalk
One of my favorite good ideas to ignore is the maxim that you should have your deployment pipeline re...
What's your atomic bomb?
Inspired by Software that helps, except I disagree with Bertil's implicit assertion that all software...
Surrealist Remixes with Markov Chains
There's a new button at the bottom of this (and each) post. Try clicking it! (If you're reading this...
Summer 2018: Massive, Twice Over
NDC talks are up! There's also the FullStack London version which is slightly condensed for a shorte...
Centralize Your Query Logic!
At a talk I gave earlier this month, an audience member asked if Massive supported joining informatio...
Shell Bonsai with tree
The shell has just about all the tooling I need for day-to-day operation of a computer: navigating an...
Automating Maven Releases with CircleCI
Maven's probably the only all-in-one build tool I've ever really appreciated. I'll probably come to l...
The Ultimate Postgres vs MySQL Blog Post
I should probably say up front that I love working with Postgres and could die happy without ever see...
The Orchid, the Wasp, and the Test Fixture
I write a lot of integration tests that operate on data. The usual format for this is a setup functio...
Decomposing Object Trees From Relational Results
This is a feature I added to my open source project Massive.js recently. I had cases where I was quer...
Behind the Curve: "New" vs "Compatible" in Node.js Package Development
The pace of Node.js development has created a complicated space for growing and maintaining reusable...
A Unified Multi-Tenant User Cache with PostgreSQL
I've been working on a multitenant Node.js product which recently moved its authentication into a Sin...
Automate Your Way to Self-Assembling Documentation
Maintaining documentation is a chore. Can we make it take care of itself as much as possible?
Populating GCE Persistent Disks
Having a persistent disk out in the cloud is a useful thing -- but how do you actually put data on one?
Cluster Organization in Docker Compose
Working backwards from Kubernetes to Docker Compose comes with a unique set of challenges and pitfalls. It's even more fun when you're learning as you go.